S03E01 - Founder Friendly

No: 19 |
Season: 3
Episode: 1 |
Air Date: 24-Apr-16

We're using a crappy plugin, so the latency is bad. If you turn too fast, that moustache is on your ear. But, with your help we think we can turn our stache-lag to just twenty millisecond motion-to-photon, just in time for Movember.

Summary

After being fired as CEO, Richard faces the decision to accept the diminished role of CTO, or leave Pied Piper altogether. A faithful Jared arranges other job opportunities for Richard, including a position with "Flutterbeam", however Richard is further disappointed when he finds out he would be programming a "Mustache" app. When Erlich meets the new CEO, "Action" Jack Barker, Barker impresses Erlich. Meanwhile, Dinesh and Gilfoyle weigh their options, whether to be faithful to Richard or to go out on their own. At Hooli, Gavin Belson admits failure by firing the entire Nucleus Division, and then arranges to give BigHead a $20 million payout to ensure his confidentiality about Hooli business matters.

Notes and Trivia

The code Gilfolyle and Dinesh have up on the screen is a real program. When compiled it outputs the text "DREAM_ON_ASSHOLES".

Changes to the title animation for this episode were the addition of car service Lyft, Alphabet now hovers atop the Google logo, Amazon drones can be seen flying overhead making deliveries, car company Tesla was added and Soylent trucks can be seen moving through the city.